Credit: Matt Artz via Unsplash Scripture doesn’t address the issue of climate change. As with other issues raised by modern science and technology, that wasn’t a concern of biblical writers two to three thousand years ago. The Bible does speak about weather...

By Aaron Burden/Public domain via Unsplash “Teaching Faith and Science” was one of the areas for which papers were invited for the annual meeting of American Scientific Affiliation this past summer. I gave one of the papers, as well as being a reviewer of others that...

The Freedom from Religion Foundation has a monthly ad in Scientific American, and the one for March 2017 featured a statement by physicist Lawrence Krauss. “Lack of understanding is not evidence for God. It is an evidence of lack of understanding, and a call to use...

In the July-August issue I talked about the mathematical form of basic laws of physics, inspired by Dirac’s suggestion that “God is a mathematician.” But I also said that we needn’t think God’s creative work to be based entirely on mathematics. “God is not a pinhead,”...

Scientific American in May 1963 published theoretical physicist Paul Dirac’s article “The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature.” It was my last year as a physics undergraduate and the article described important steps in development of relativity and quantum...